St Agnes High School - Spires Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Music for ever Une i f, CAROLERS, besides singing aT The ChrisT- mas enTerTainmenT, also Travelled To several oT The ciTy hospiTals and visiTed The Home OT The l.iTTle SisTers oT The Poor. Soon aTTer The winTer vacaTion, The nearness oT l.enT, l'loly Week, and EasTer called TorTh The solemn peniTenTial music imkermingled wiTh Alleluias. Wifh inTerrupTions Tor The l-ligh Masses on ST. PaTricl4's Day, The FeasT oT ST. Joseph, and The AnnunciaTion, The Clulo worked sTeadily Toward The climax of The year, The 5:30 Mass on EasTer morning. And now CommencemenT remains, To end The year where iT loegan, be- Tore The alTar, wilh The sTrains oT The Tradi- Tional God of All NaTure. Boys' Glee Club Girls' Glee Club rl 053. VY V'Y A Group of Carolers Cl-llEF among The acTiviTies OT The Boys' Choir was The ChanTing OT The Tenebrae during l-loly Week and of The Vespers during ForTy Hours DevoTion. 4 I

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TI-IE ADDITION of a new seclion ol violins and several brass inslru- menls lhis year indicales lhal Ihe school orcheslra is sleadily pro- gressing. As usual The orcheslra has assisled al many of lhe school enferlainmenls, bofh lor Ihe slu- denl body and lor lhe public. usic SINGING a Ponlilical High Mass, celebraled by His Excellency, Bishop IvlcGuclcen, Io honor lhe Cenlennial ol lhe Sislers ol lhe I-Ioly Cross, The Glee Club ushered in The new school year. OIF lo an early slarl, lhe meme bers worlced perseveringly, confinuing The us- ual aclivilies ol lhe club and inlroducing new ones. To lhe ioinf Sodalily-Glee Club proiecl of singing hymns al lhe General I-Iospilal on The second Sunday ol each monlh was added 'rhe privilege ol providing music lor lhe palienls' Chrislmas Mass. ln school affairs, lhe annual Carnival Amaleur Hour gave op- porlunily for lhe more ambilious members Io exhibir lheir falenl, and fhe club was well represenled. I X...

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THE HAUGHTY DUCHESS, surrounded by simple village folk, falls on her knees in supplianl veneralion al The miraculous apparifion of +he Virgin. A+ lhe high school performance Pafricia Ondrey, supporled by an enfirely new casl, played 'rhe role of +he duchess. IN CONNECTION wirh Fire Prevenlion Week, The Speech Ar'rs class presenied an origi- nal musical comedy, l-lol Slug, wriHen by Mary Te- resa Egerer and Carmel Peruzzi. The enfire class par- ficipaled, and bofh firemen and fellow sludenls ap- plauded fhe produclion en- fhusiaslically. 42 A TENSE MOMENT in A Painl- ing for The Duchess in which Mil- dred Vogel played fhe duchess: Francis Redmond, lhe par? of Manuel, fhe noblemani and Ru- dolph Abeyla, Basil, The painler. Carmel Peruzzi, Peggy Hansler, Mary Jane Roach, Mary Vasquez, Phyllis Sommer, and Norma Maron add color, rhy+hm and melody fo The Firebugn chorus.